Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-07-28

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and carried her into the house, where
she was restored to consciousness.
Tears of shame and modification
rolled down her pale cheeks. and she
turned her face away to hide them.
MY daughter" said the father kind
~ Il had intended to invite him into
the house and agree to your marriage,
if you still persisted in your determin-
alton to marry him. Shall I bring him
| back?"
mot till I'm able to wiring his neckr'
she answered, with all the fierce indig-
nation of her outraged feelings and
wounded pride surging up from the
] depths of her heart and flashing from
Z the dark eyes so recently beaming with
| tenderness Tor her recreant lover.
He sent her letter; but she prompt
: ly returned it unopened.
/ She was taking a stroll in the or
chard one day, when she very unex-
| pectly met Phil Williams. the very per-
| son of all others whom she was anxious
to avoid.
She blushed like a June rosebud.
and would have retreated without ap-
| pearing to notice him had he not ad-
yanced with such a friendly greeting
| and look of such real sympathy in
his honest eyes that she could not es-
cape him.
1--WE miss you at the social gatherings,
Susie, he said. land you must not let
one disappointment deprive the neigh
borhood of your society. You have
done nothing more than any girl in the
country would have done had the OBJ
portunity been given her; and MI.
HERMAN certainly displayed good
judgment in selecting you in prefer
ence to all others" he said, soothingly.
Il didn't" said Susie, decidedly.
"Well, never mind that now," he
answered. Il want you to 90 with
me to party at the residence Of Mr..
Nelson, next week"
ooh, l can't. l cantw cried Susie,
piteously. Every one will be laugh
ing at me and teasing me, and / can
not bear it.
''No one shall say word to annoy
you without hearing from me then and
there" he said, encouragingly. sIt
is not to be supposed that a girl like
you can get over a liking for man
like him all at once. But [ would be
glad to have you go and convince Mr..
HERMAN that he has not broken your
heart entirely"
MY heart will never break for such
cowardly miscreant as he!" she an
severed, Indignantly.
''Come, then, and satisfy him that
you don't mind seeing him flirt with
Mollie Dean any more than if it were
myself, " he said, persuasively.
''Phil, have you really the courage
to take me where every one will be ridi-
culing us both?" she asked earnestly.
Eyes, and shield you from all an
nOyance while you are there" he an
swered, promptly.
''Then I'll go!' she said, with feel
ing OF greater respect for Phil Will
Jams than she had ever known before.
Mr. HERMAN was at the party, and
Susie recognised him with the polite
ness due to q guest at the same house,
and treated him with the unaffected in
difference of an ordinary acquaintance,
which was infinitely more pleasing
than decided expression of resent
ment would have been, for it looked to
him rs if she cared too little to be
angry.
In tie course of q few weeks he was
married to Mollie.
Three years passed away, and hav-
ing acquired comfortable home in
which to place her, Phil Williams led
Susie to the altar without the necessity
Of an elopement.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman continued
to live upon the forty-acre farm given
them by Mollie'S father.
Susie had never visited them since
their marriage; but one morning,
shortly after settling down to house
keeping, Phil asked Susie to ride to
town with him and having business
with Mr.. HERMAN, he drove round |
that way.
They found Mollie out attending to
the pigs and poultry, carrying a child |
in her arms, and followed by another |
little one just old enough to toddle |
after her.
She tried. to conceal the fact that her
husband was still in bed; for, having |
been to party on the previous eve |
ming, from which he did not return |
until four o'clock in the morning, he |
was making up for his loss of sleep, |
while his wife took care of the children |
6CLINA oUiCuNCI W JlIC LII III.
There was feeling of pity in Susie's
heart when she noted the weary and |
discouraged look upon Mollie's fea-
lures, as she tried to make satisfactory |
excuses for her husbands too apparent |
for true woman always
endeavors to conceal her husbands
faults.
After leaving the place, both were
silent for few moments, then Phil
said:
''Susie, do you envy Mollie her hand
some husband?"
''Oh, Phil" said Susie earnestly, II
was just thin"
She paused, as if unwilling to proceed.
''Of course you were, and so was 1.
said Phil. ''Susie, have a secret that
/ have never told you"
''Wen, let me hear it," she replied.
Not till you promise forgiveness"
he said, teasingly.
And at last she promised.
1T was | who first discovered your
intention to elope, and gave the infor-
m n tion that cheated S-o11 mt of tho /